DIPLOMACY

Pakistan Reopens NATO Supply Lines

Into Afghanistan, after U.S. apology.

Pakistan is reopening an important supply line into Afghanistan after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apologized for a November NATO strike that left 24 Pakistani soldiers dead. Pakistan sealed off its border with Afghanistan to NATO supply movements after the strike. “I offered our sincere condolences to the families of the Pakistani soldiers who lost their lives,” Clinton said in a statement Tuesday. “Foreign Minister Khar and I acknowledged the mistakes that resulted in the loss of Pakistani military lives.” Precisely what happened leading up to the airstrike has been a matter of contention between the two countries, with the United States saying the deaths were the result of “poor coordination.”